Hmm... at first I was gonna say that I only speak for the "hearing" side, but a recent event does reinforce the idea of mutual "uncomfortableness" (if that indeed is a word 
) causing "rejection". I went to a banquet recently and sat next to an older man who is HoH or severe (60 dB loss) but he went to the school for deaf and blind and uses ASL as his primary means of communication. He does lipread me well. He is very outgoing, and visits me often in my office, but I noticed that he was very shy and did not want to speak at all in our table. Several people were talking (a group setting) and I talked along with them. I realized that he does not have a problem with interacting with hearing people or anything but.. I wouldn't be surprised if he is inclined to not go to parties, etc. that have mostly hearing people because he is just not comfortable to be in a situation like that. There's REJECTION as in "OMG YOU ARE GETTING THE CI YOU SUCK" and there's rejection where people have a tendency to stay away from situations/groups of people that causes a lot of uneasiness, which I believe is a lot more common.
